What should I read after Thirteen Reasons Why?

If you liked Thirteen Reasons Why, try All Good People Here (Ashley Flowers), City of Glass (Cassandra Clare) and Crescendo (Becca Fitzpatrick).

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher: what it’s like, who it’s for

Name: Thirteen Reasons Why
Author: Jay Asher
ISBN: 9781595147882

A high-school boy follows a map through town, listening to cassette tapes that explain how thirteen people shaped the girl who made them.

Feels like dread, grief and longing. About ambition, art and time.

The impact you leave without noticing, and the push you give anyway.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Excerpt from Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher 2007. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

Jay Asher.Jay Asher's 2007 debut became a bestseller and a Netflix series—and one of the most frequently challenged YA novels in American schools.

Ashley Flowers, 2022

Also dread and grief.

Cassandra Clare, 2009

Also longing and art.

Becca Fitzpatrick, 2010

Also longing and dread.

Lisa Jewell, 2017

Also dread and grief.

Colleen Hoover, 2015

Also longing and grief.

Stacy Willingham, 2023

Also dread and grief.

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What is Thirteen Reasons Why like?: Feels like dread, grief and longing. About ambition, art and time.
What should I read after Thirteen Reasons Why?: If you liked Thirteen Reasons Why, try All Good People Here (Ashley Flowers), City of Glass (Cassandra Clare) and Crescendo (Becca Fitzpatrick).

What grief turns a mother's love into when no one is watching.
Krissy felt something harden inside her—all these women, their daughters alive and well, come to get off on how benevolent and sad Krissy’s story made them feel. She would gladly murder any one of their daughters right now to have hers back for one more day.
All Good People Here · Ashley Flowers
The particular tiredness of disliking someone you can't help admiring.
And then there was Jace, standing off at a little distance, as if he didn’t quite belong. He was all in Shadowhunter black like the others. When Simon wore all black, he looked like he was on his way to a funeral, but Jace just looked tough and dangerous. And blonder. Simon felt his shoulders tighten and wondered if anything—time, or forgetfulness—would ever dilute his resentment of Jace. He didn’t want to feel it, but there it was, a stone weighting down his unbeating heart.
City of Glass · Cassandra Clare
The moment a romantic promise becomes something you can bleed for.
I gripped his collar and pulled him against me, kissing him more fervently, sealing the promise between us. I locked my fingers between his, the sharp edge of the ring biting into our palms. Nothing I did seemed to bring me close enough to him, no amount of him was enough. The ring ground deeper into my hand, until I was certain it had broken skin. A blood promise.
Crescendo · Becca Fitzpatrick
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